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Unpaid fines landed Hector Garcia in the county jail. Six days later he was dead.

View Comments LAS CRUCES - Unpaid fines amounting to $242 landed Hector Garcia in the county jail for six days in August 2019. On day six, he was dead, a federal complaint alleges. The lawsuit, brought by Garcia's son, says Doña Ana County Detention Center staff and employees of Corizon Health — the contractor providing medical and behavioral services at the detention center — denied Garcia higher-level care even after he began exhibiting symptoms of a perforated ulcer, a condition that requires emergency surgery. The lack of care allegedly continued despite episodes of collapsing, vomi...

View Comments LAS CRUCES – Doña Ana County settled a 2019 lawsuit this month over the treatment of an inmate at the county detention center. In a federal complaint, Susan Hylton alleged she was placed in solitary confinement for 85 days in retaliation for requesting to report sexual and physical abuse following a strip search for drugs in October 2018, conducted as part of a "shakedown" of the female pod.  In the course of the search, she stated in the complaint that she was ordered to remove a feminine hygiene product while she was naked, in view of male guards and a fellow inmate.